Word Studies

Reference works

Each of these is named so you can open it and check us. Each carries what it is good for and what it cannot decide.

Every entry below is labelled with the kind of evidence it is, so a lexicon is never mistaken for the text and a commentary is never mistaken for a conclusion Scripture has drawn.

• A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament

  Original languageSupports the text, never settles it · Francis Brown, S. R. Driver and Charles Briggs, 1906 · Public domain

  Hebrew and Aramaic vocabulary arranged by root, with attested senses and passages.

  Use forEstablishing the documented range of a Hebrew word and its cognates.

  CautionArrangement by root can suggest connections between words that the biblical writers never made. Its comparative etymologies are often proposals.

  Source and authority

• A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

  Original languageSupports the text, never settles it · Joseph Henry Thayer, 1889 · Public domain

  New Testament Greek vocabulary with classical and Septuagint usage noted.

  Use forTracing how a Greek word was used before the New Testament reached for it.

  CautionWritten before the papyri showed how ordinary first century Greek actually sounded, so some entries read the vocabulary as more literary than it was.

  Source and authority

• Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

  Biblical cross-referencesSupports the text, never settles it · James Strong, 1890 · Public domain

  Every word of the King James text indexed, each keyed by number to a Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek entry.

  Use forFinding every occurrence of an original word and following it across the canon.

  CautionThe numbered glosses are the briefest possible summary, not a definition. A word's meaning in one verse is set by that verse, not by the whole range Strong lists.

  Source and authority

• Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible

  Biblical cross-referencesSupports the text, never settles it · Robert Young, 1879 · Public domain

  English words sorted by which original word lies behind them.

  Use forSeeing where one English word translates several different Hebrew or Greek words.

  CautionKeyed to the King James Version, so the English entries will not always match the translation you are reading.

  Source and authority

Entries on this shelf

Audela's own entries for this kind of study. Each one is taught from the passages that use it and links into the chapter studies, topics and questions that go furthest with it.

• Eternal Life

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  The unending life of the age to come, known now through Christ

  Source and authority
• Faith

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  Trust in God's character and word, shown by resting on it

  Source and authority
• Grace

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  God's undeserved favour, given freely in Christ

  Source and authority
• Lamb of God

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  The sacrifice God provides, who takes away sin

  Source and authority
• Messiah and Christ

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  The Anointed One, promised through the prophets

  Source and authority
• Repentance

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  A change of mind and direction, turning from sin to God

  Source and authority
• Righteousness

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  Being right with God, and living rightly before him

  Source and authority
• Son of God

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  The unique Son who shares the Father's nature

  Source and authority
• Son of Man

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  Daniel's heavenly figure, the name Jesus used most for himself

  Source and authority
• The Good Shepherd

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  The shepherd who knows his sheep and dies for them

  Source and authority
• The Word

  ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

  God's self-expression, present before creation and personal

  Source and authority

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The order of authority

Scripture · Biblical cross references · Original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek · Historical, cultural, geographical and archaeological background · Trusted biblical reference works · Explanation and application

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